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Falsification

Falsification ratio

Time you spend with falsifying ideas:

The lesson I found the most striking is this: there’s a direct correlation between how skilled you are as a chess player, and how much time you spend falsifying your ideas. The authors find that grandmasters spend longer falsifying their idea for a move than they do coming up with the move in the first place, whereas amateur players tend to identify a solution and then play it shortly after without trying their hardest to falsify it first.

Pure science

FAM: Az objektív igazság határa és az akarat bölcselete

The moment you start using human language, words and phrases you exit the realm of pure science.

Fragility of physics

Linguistics

Cognitive Linguistics lectures from Thomas Hoffmann

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